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(No Mariel.) H` H. WAUGH.

MANUPAOTURE OF BOOTS OR SHOES. No. 352,899. P tented Nov. l

yUNiTED STATESl PATENfr OFFICE.

HENRY H. WAUGH, OF vW'lllrllllIAN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-w HALF TO CLARENCE D. REED, OF SAME PLACE.

MANUFACTURE oF srncrrroa'irolr forming part ef Lettere Patent No. 352,899, dated November 1e, 188e.

Application filed July 14, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.- e Be it known that I, HENRY H. WAUGH, of Whitman, countyof Plymouth, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Boots orShoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specication, like letters on the drawings representing like parts. This invention has for its object to construct a boot or shoe having a cork sole by an improved method, whereby the expense is materially decreased and a much better shoe produced. In accordance with this invention an interf sole, or it may be a slip or tap sole, is provided on its upper surface with a thin piece or filling of cork of considerably less dimensions than the sole, and a piping-strip of. leather, filled preferably with a cord, is secured by stitches to the upper surface of the said, intersole around the piece of cork. The intersole thus prepared is then placed upon the usual lasted shoe, and secured thereto byfastenings inserted through the intersole and the usual inner sole, the said fastenings, preferably stitches, entering the intersole between the cork filling and the piping-,the latter lying close to the outer edge of the upper, in the space between the'upper and the intersole. After'this the outer sole is applied and secured to the intersole outside ofthe piping in any usual manner, but preferably by stitches.

Figure l shows in side elevation a Congress gaiter constructed in accordance with this invention; Figr. 2, a crosssection of Fig. l, taken on thedotted linex x,- and Fig.' 3, a plan view of the intersole,' which is placed between the inner and outerA soles of the-boot or shoe. i f

The upper a is or may be of any usual'construction, it being in this instance shown as shaped to produce a- Congress gaiter, the upper being lasted over a last,'t, havingan inner sole, b, all in usual manner.'

An intersole, c, (see Fig. 3,) shown as a fulllength sole, (although it is obvious that, if desire'd, it may be merely a slip or tap sole,) has secured to its upper surface a thin piece 4of filling or layer of cork, d, which serves as a Serial No. 207,994. (No model.)

filling-sole, as well as imparting the usual advantageous qualities of an ordinary cork sole.

'Ihe intersole c, prepared as above described,

is placed upon the shoe after the upperhas been lasted in usual manner, the cork layer d lying contiguous to the inner sole, b. rIhe intersole isthen united to the lasted upper by a line of stitches or other suitable fastenings, 2, passed through the intersole, upper, and inner sole. The outer sole, g, is then applied to the `intersole c, and secured thereto by a line of stitches or other fastenings, as at 3, passing through the edge portion f of the intersole.

` By the method herein' described a shoe may be more cheaply put'together than by any method known to me, and a much better shoe produced. n v

I am aware that a shoe has been made containing Van upper, inner sole, piping-cord, cork-filling sole,y a welt, and-an outer sole;

but in making the shoe the piping-cord was secured to the lasted shoe, and in order to hold the same in placca large number of tacks were employed, besides rendering the same liable to displacement when stitched.

If desired, the projecting edge f may be omitted, and the line of stitches or other fastenings 3, uniting the outer sole to the intersole, be made inside the outer `edge of the piping. v

It is obvious that the piping-strip of leather e may be filled with any other suitable material than cord, if desired.

The herein-described method of manufacturing boots and shoes, which consists n lasting the upper to the inner sole, as usual, providing anl intersole with a cork-filling sole,

and stitching to the ntersole around the oorkto this specification in the presence of two sublling sole a piping-oord, as described, se scribing witnesses. curing the intersole thus provided with the HENRY H `VVAUGEL piping-cord and cork-lling sole to the lasted 5 shoe, and, lastly, securing the outer sole to the Witnesses:

intersole. BERNICE J. N oYEs,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name F. CUTTER. 

